2026 Annotated Edition · Eugene Seaich
Discovering the Roots of the Eternal Gospel in the Ancient Primitive Church
Six volumes, one argument: that the ancient texts (the Hebrew Bible in its oldest recoverable form, the pseudepigrapha, the Nag Hammadi library and the early Christian fathers) illuminate Latter-day Saint theology in ways the modern debates rarely acknowledge.
The series
Print: six paperback volumes. Ebook: four editions (Parts I, II and III, and the omnibus). Publication schedule and prices are announced as each volume clears proof.
Volume 1 · 371 pages
What Is Mormonism? Apostasy, Orthodoxy, and the Eternal Gospel
The opening volume frames the whole series: what Mormonism claims about itself, what the “great apostasy” means in early-Christian terms, how orthodoxy formed — and the case for an eternal gospel underlying restoration claims. It sets the method the later volumes follow: ancient texts first, then the Latter-day Saint reading of them.
Volume 2 · 628 pages
Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the Divine Council
The series’ doctrinal core: the Latter-day Saint understanding of God — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as distinct beings — set against the ancient divine-council worldview of the Hebrew Bible (Deuteronomy 32, Psalm 82) and early Jewish and Christian sources. The volume traces how the council of gods in ancient texts illuminates the Mormon concept of deity.
Volume 3 · 531 pages
Preexistence, the Heavenly Council, and the Divine Origin of the Soul
What human beings are and where they came from: the preexistence of spirits, the heavenly council’s role in the divine plan, and the ancient roots of the doctrine that the soul has a divine origin. Draws on biblical, pseudepigraphal, and early Christian witnesses.
Volume 4 · 585 pages
Grace, Theosis, and the Three Degrees of Glory
The doctrine of salvation: grace and works, the ancient Christian doctrine of theosis (deification — humans becoming like God), and the three degrees of glory. The volume answers critics — including a direct response to assessments like Sterling McMurrin’s — with the ancient texts themselves as evidence.
Volume 5 · 828 pages
Ancient Temple Symbolism, the Jerusalem Temple, and the Modern Temple
Temple theology across the ancient world: the symbolism of the Jerusalem temple, its rituals and architecture, and their relationship to the modern Latter-day Saint temple. Builds on Seaich’s 1981 SEHA paper on cherubim and temple symbolism and his Gorgias Press volume A Great Mystery: The Secret of the Jerusalem Temple.
Volume 6 · 485 pages
The Nag Hammadi Texts, the Papyri, and the Facsimiles
The closing volume takes on the hardest problems: Gnostic literature from Nag Hammadi, the Joseph Smith papyri, and the Book of Abraham facsimiles — testing Latter-day Saint claims against the ancient sources with the series’ full scholarly apparatus.
Seaich’s comparisons of Latter-day Saint teaching with ancient sources are his interpretation. Independent scholarship; not an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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